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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUQ32

1978-06-14 MOJAVE, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N14EP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PROGRESSIVE AERODYNE INC SEAREY

Year of manufacture

2009

Engine

ROTAX 914 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20090612

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0A0C9

Registrant of record

BATTERMAN ERIC P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

PROSCH PR-2 · N14EP

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

MOJAVE

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 15 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

12 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

6,500

Investigator remarks

GUSTING 25K.

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1781. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1781.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.